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Showing 1 to 20 of 59 for “"Health technology"”.
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A Holistic Framework for Designing Mental Health Technology
… accounts for an estimated 32.4% of years of healthy life lost due to disability. By 2030, mental disorders are forecast to become the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the world. Mental health technologies (MHT) based on the internet, mobile apps, wearable sensors and artificial …
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Understanding older adults’ motivations to use digital health technology
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-09-01 without embargo terms
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Rethinking Ethics Assessment in Health Technology Assessment: A Nonlinear Approach
… how ethics can be meaningfully integrated into health technology assessment (HTA). The contribution of this dissertation is two-fold. The first is to provide an honest and critical evaluation of current HTA practices, including those that involve ethics assessments and that do not. This …
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Understanding the Relationship Between Health Technology Reassessment and Knowledge Translation
… Translation (KT) would be applicable to Health Technology Reassessment (HTR). This thesis reports on three studies to determine how KT approaches are used to translate HTR outputs to achieve the desired outcomes. The first study was a scoping review of full-spectrum (phases of …
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Opening the black box of the health technology assessment process at NICE
… site taken is the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) and its Health Technology Assessment (HTA) process. The HTA process represents many diagnostic areas within one centralised, calculable process. The qualities of calculative practice, which mediate such …
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Childhood obesity treatment: integrating mobile health technology into a paediatric obesity service
… obesity intervention; v) develops a mobile health application for obesity treatment and vi) tests the application in a clinical trial. Methods: In Study 1, systematic reviews and meta-analyses of the 12‐month effects of lifestyle and mHealth interventions were conducted. In Study 2, the …
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Health technology assessment of online eLearning for post-registration health professionals’ education
… was to undertake and report the findings of a health technology assessment (HTA) on the effectiveness, cost-effectiveness and acceptability of online and LAN-based eLearning, and blended learning, among post-registration healthcare professionals. Methods: This HTA comprised three studies. The …
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Developing a Framework for Conducting Health Technology Assessment in a Resource-Constrained Setting
Health Technology Assessment (HTA) is crucial for achieving Universal Health Coverage (UHC) but remains underdeveloped for medical devices (MDs) in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), particularly within fragmented public health sectors. Local MD manufacturers face significant barriers …
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Design of a best-practice start-up accelerator for the Granada Health Technology Park
… diverse typology of accelerators (e.g., selected Health based accelerators in the US and Spanish accelerators) and created an exhaustive benchmark analysis across them. Finally, we proposed a "best-practice" accelerator for the PTS Granada, including choices such as the value proposition, the …
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Modelling Malaysia residents’ behavioural intention to use smartwatch: the role of health technology and device benefits
… to the market. According to numerous smartwatch technology adoption journals, consumer smartwatch functionalities such as health technology, infotainment and communications, supported living and safety, and lifestyle and fashion are beneficial for social well-being. Researchers hypothesised that …
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A comparison of health technology adoption in four countries (Japan, Korea, the UK, and the US)
… examines and compares the adoption of health technologies through case studies. The health technologies under review are assisted reproductive technologies, cochlear implants, haematopoietic stem cell transplantations, caesarean section deliveries, Gamma knife units and kidney …
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Health technology assessment in Sub-Saharan Africa : a cross-national study of Kenya and South Africa
… is concerned with the applications and use of health technology in Sub-Saharan Africa, and particularly in Kenya and South Africa. The focus is on technology planning, deployment, use, management and assessment in the public health sector. The objectives of the study are three-fold: (1) to …
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The economics of a new health technology: an evaluation of the impact of statins on lifestyle behaviors
… remains a significant burden to the population's health. For most of the second half of the 20th century, changes in lifestyle--such as in diet and exercise--have been the most salient intervention to prevent cardiovascular disease. However, pharmaceutical interventions have gained significant …
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Health technology assessment in maternal and perinatal medicine: delphi survey of practice, systematic reviews of evidence and meta analyses
Objective To undertake Health Technology Assessment (HTA) in maternal and perinatal medicine for tests and treatment in the areas of pre eclampsia, preterm labour, epilepsy and congenital heart disease (CHD) in newborn. Methods The work undertaken in the thesis is divided into 4 sections: Delphi …
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Health technology assessment for levetiracetam in the treatment of newly diagnosed epilepsy in the South African Public Health Sector
… specifically in the South African public health sector. It compared levetiracetam, lamotrigine, carbamazepine, phenytoin and valproate as first-line treatment in focal seizures (International Classification of Diseases (ICD)-10 code: G40.2) and generalized tonic-clonic seizures (ICD-10 …
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Health technology : design of bandage-sized wireless sensors and effect of ambient displays on social support and diabetes management
Health-Zero refers to health technology design that focus on interaction with an individual as a whole to promote well-being. This thesis presents two explorations in the discipline. The first exploration involves the design of a wireless bandage-sized ECG sensor to create a personal and …
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Accesso ai medicinali innovativi per indicazioni neurologiche in Europa: allineamento delle valutazioni di Health Technology Assessment tra i Paesi Europei
… sul valore terapeutico espresso da organismi di Health Techbnology Assessment (HTA). Obiettivo di questo studio è quello di confrontare le raccomandazioni di HTA espresse dai paesi dell'UE (Francia, Germania e Italia) per nuovi farmaci neurologici dopo l'approvazione di EMA. Nel periodo di …
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Κατευθυντήριες οδηγίες για την αξιοποίηση των RWD/RWE στην αξιολόγηση τεχνολογιών υγείας / Guidelines for RWD/RWE in the health technology assessment
… - RWE) στην Αξιολόγηση Τεχνολογιών Υγείας (Health Technology Assessment - HTA). Μέσα από μια συστηματική βιβλιογραφική ανασκόπηση των κατευθυντήριων οδηγιών που δημοσιεύθηκαν μεταξύ Ιανουαρίου 2024 και Απριλίου 2025 από ρυθμιστικές αρχές (FDA, EMA), φορείς HTA (NICE, CADTH, IQWiG, HAS), …
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"A compelling voice": a qualitative study of the construction and mobilisation of lived experience evidence and expertise in health technology assessment in Scotland
… a resource-limited setting, such as the National Health Service (NHS), is that not every medicine or other health technology that is safe, or even efficacious, can be funded. In Scotland, such funding decisions are made using Health Technology Assessment (HTA), a multidisciplinary process that …
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Advancing Digital Health Equity in a Safety-Net Health System: Identifying Barriers, Evaluating Training, and Assessing Impact on Diabetes Outcomes
Digital health technology, including patient portal use and telehealth visits, has been increasingly utilized across healthcare settings, transforming how individuals access healthcare and contributing to improved quality of care. However, there are differences in which types of patients use …
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